| abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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| absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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| acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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| aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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| acid | (adjective) having the characteristics of an acid | - |
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| (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acidic, acidulent, acidulous |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| acidic | (adjective) being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7) | - |
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| (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidulent, acidulous |
| acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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| acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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| acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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| acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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| acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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| acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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| aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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| acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
| acinic | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinose, acinous |
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| acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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| acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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| antacid | (adjective) acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach) | - |
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| anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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| audacious | (adjective) disposed to venture or take risks | Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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| (adjective) invulnerable to fear or intimidation | Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing |
| (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
| bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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| (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
| bacilliform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, baculiform, rod-shaped |
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| bifacial | (adjective) having two faces or fronts | Synonyms: biface |
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| biracial | (adjective) consisting of or combining two races | - |
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| bodacious | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or propriety | Synonyms: audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, brazen, insolent |
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| (adjective) incorrigible | - |
| boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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| bracing | (adjective) imparting vitality and energy | Synonyms: brisk, fresh, refreshful, refreshing, tonic |
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| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| capacious | (adjective) large in capacity | - |
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| capacitive | (adjective) of or relating to capacitance | - |
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| contumacious | (adjective) wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient | - |
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| dacitic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of dacite | - |
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| edacious | (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
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| efficacious | (adjective) marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect | - |
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| (adjective) producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect | Synonyms: effective, effectual |
| emaciated | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| facial | (adjective) of or concerning the face | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to the outside surface of an object | - |
| facile | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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| (adjective) performing adroitly and without effort | - |
| (adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: neat, slick |
| facilitative | (adjective) freeing from difficulty or impediment | - |
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| facilitatory | (adjective) inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity | - |
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| fallacious | (adjective) involving deception | Synonyms: deceitful, fraudulent |
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| (adjective) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information | - |
| (adjective) containing or based on a fallacy | Synonyms: unsound |
| fugacious | (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory |
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| glacial | (adjective) relating to or derived from a glacier | - |
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| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, icy, polar |
| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frosty, frozen, icy, wintry |
| glaciated | (adjective) covered with ice (as by a glacier) or affected by glacial action | - |
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| gracile | (adjective) slender and graceful | Synonyms: willowy |
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| gracious | (adjective) characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects | Synonyms: benignant |
| (adjective) exhibiting courtesy and politeness | Synonyms: courteous, nice |
| (adjective) disposed to bestow favors | - |
| incapacitated | (adjective) lacking in or deprived of strength or power | Synonyms: helpless |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| inefficacious | (adjective) lacking the power to produce a desired effect | - |
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| interfacial | (adjective) relating to or situated at an interface | - |
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| interlacing | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlinking, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interracial | (adjective) involving or composed of different races | Synonyms: mixed |
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| (adjective) between races | - |
| laciniate | (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: fringed |
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| limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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| loquacious | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky |
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| mandibulofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the lower jaw and face | - |
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| maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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| menacing | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mendacious | (adjective) intentionally untrue | - |
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| (adjective) given to lying | - |
| minacious | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| mordacious | (adjective) biting or given to biting | - |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent |
| multiracial | (adjective) made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races | - |
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| mutafacient | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents) | - |
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| nonracial | (adjective) not racial; having nothing to do with race or races | - |
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| nonracist | (adjective) unprejudiced about race | Synonyms: color-blind, colour-blind |
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| pacific | (adjective) promoting peace | - |
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| (adjective) disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature | Synonyms: peaceable |
| pacifist | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifistic |
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| pacifistic | (adjective) opposed to war | Synonyms: dovish, pacifist |
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| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| placid | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: quiet, smooth, still, tranquil, unruffled |
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| (adjective) not easily irritated | Synonyms: equable, even-tempered, good-tempered |
| postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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| predacious | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predaceous |
| pugnacious | (adjective) ready and able to resort to force or violence | Synonyms: rough |
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| (adjective) tough and callous by virtue of experience | Synonyms: hard-bitten, hard-boiled |
| putrefacient | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefactive |
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| racial | (adjective) of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups | - |
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| (adjective) of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people | - |
| racist | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, antiblack |
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| (adjective) based on racial intolerance | - |
| rapacious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: ravening, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| sagacious | (adjective) skillful in statecraft or management | - |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: perspicacious, sapient |
| salacious | (adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness | Synonyms: lewd, obscene, raunchy |
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| (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, prurient |
| sorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: absorbefacient |
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| spacial | (adjective) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space | Synonyms: spatial |
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| spaciotemporal | (adjective) existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration | Synonyms: spatiotemporal |
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| spacious | (adjective) (of buildings and rooms) having ample space | Synonyms: roomy |
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| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: broad, wide |
| subacid | (adjective) slightly sour to the taste | - |
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| tacit | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: silent, understood |
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| taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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| tenacious | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, retentive |
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| (adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: coherent |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, unyielding |
| thoracic | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: pectoral |
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| ungracious | (adjective) lacking charm and good taste | - |
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| (adjective) lacking social graces | Synonyms: discourteous |
| unifacial | (adjective) having but one principal or specialized surface | - |
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| vacillant | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillating, wavering |
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| vacillating | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, wavering |
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| veracious | (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) habitually speaking the truth | - |
| vivacious | (adjective) vigorous and animated | Synonyms: vibrant |
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| voracious | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, ravening |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, wolfish |